This book presents a concise history, or “survey” of jazz piano. In 13 hands-on lessons and 4 bonus performances, Dick Hyman explores the styles, musical vocabulary, and performers who have defined and shaped this elusive American art form over the last century.

The Fingerstyle Curriculum Best Ragtime Solos offers the Fingerstyle Guitarist a diverse collection of Ragtime pieces ranging from the classic Piano rags of Scott Joplin and Tom Hayden to the bluesier rags typical of guitarists from the Mississippi Delta.

Treasury of syncopated dance pieces from around the turn of the century, including Eubie Blake's "The Chevy Chase" and "Fizz Water"; Kerry Mills's "At a Georgia Campmeeting" and "Rastus on Parade"; Chris Smith's "Ballin' the Jack" and many more.